Paper piano-cover



(No Model.)

B. M. WEBB. PAPER PIANO COVER.

Patented Mar. 15, 1892..-

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UNrTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT M. XVEBB, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PAPER PIANO-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 471,043, dated March 15, 1892.

Application filed November 3, 1891, Serial No. 410,724. (No model.)

'1'!) all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT M. WEBB, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Piano-Covers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved paper jacket or bag adapted more especially to be placed over upright pianos before the same are boxed for shipment; and it has for its general object to provide such a paper jacket of a form and construction adapted to cover the top, front, and sides of a piano, whereby the same will be effectually protected against cold, dust, dampness, and scratches.

\Vith the foregoing end in View the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claim, when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view, partly in section, of my jacket or bag in an operative position. Fig. 2 is a detail interior perspective View illustrating the front and top subflaps or reinforcing and stiffening strips. Fig. 3 is a view of the blank from which the side flaps are formed, together with the reinforcing or stiffening strips; and Fig. 4: is an enlarged detail interior perspective view illustrating the plaits F and the manner of forming the same.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A indicates the front flap of my improved jacket or bag, which is formed of paper of a thin, soft, and strong texture and is of a width and height corresponding to or greater than that of the piano. Formed integral with the front flap A is the top flap B, which rests approximately at right angles to said front flap and is of a width and length corresponding to or greater than that of the piano-top.

The side flaps G of my improved jacket or bag, which are formed of the same material as the front and top flaps, are provided at their upper edges with integral sub-flaps D,

which are bent inward at the point indicated by the dotted lines a in Fig. 3 at right angles to the side flaps and are connected to the under side of the top flap Bby an adhesive sub stance or in any preferred manner.

Formed integral wit-h the forward edge of the side flaps G, as better shown in Fig 2 of the drawings, are the sub-flaps E, which are folded inwardly at right angles to the flap C at the point indicated by the dotted line b, and are connected to the inside of the front flap A by adhesive substance and preferably in such a manner that their inner vertical edges will be loose. As better shown in Fig. l of the drawings, the vertical edges of the front flap A do not extend to the point indicated by the dotted line b of the side flaps, whereby it will be readily perceived that a space is afforded between the vertical edges of the front flaps A and the dotted corner lines of the side flaps O for the formation of the vertical plaits F, which rest over the forward corners and legs or moldings of the piano, and are designed to adapt themselves to the configuration of said corners and moldings, so as to render the fit of the cover more perfect. These plaits F, as better illustrated in Fig. 4 0f the drawings, are respectively formed by folding the paper between the corner line b of the respective side flaps O and the vertical edges of the fiapA and then folding the plait or plaits over upon the connected portion of the sub-flap E and connecting said plaits thereto by adhesive substance or in any other suitable manner.

From the foregoing description, taken together with the annexed drawings, it will be readily perceived that I have provided a jacket or bag of soft paper adapted to cover a piano while in the box and protect it from injury, as before described, and by reason of the exceeding cheapness of the jackets or bags it will be seen that the manufacturer suffers no material expense in covering his pianos with the same.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, the paper jacket or bag for covering pianos, comprising the front flap, the top flap formed integral tion of the sub-flaps over upon theirinner con- 10 with the front flap, the side flaps, the'subnected portions, substantially as and for the flaps formed integral with the upper edges of purpose specified.

the side flapsand connected to the under side In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 5 of the top flap, the sub-flaps formed integral presence of two Witnesses.

with the forward vertical edges of the side ROB'I. M. WEBB flaps, and the vertical plaits formed by fold- Witnesses: ing the vertical sub-flaps longitudinally and FRANK S. PARREY. then folding the lower end of the folded por- BENJ. STRADLEY. 

